Synopsis

The sponsor provides financial assistance to ASSE members who wish to advance their education through ASSE Certification Preparation Workshops (ASP, CSP, CHST, OHST), ASSE Professional Development Seminars or Symposia or the ASSE Professional Development Conference.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides financial assistance to full-time safety professionals seeking certification in recognized safety certification courses such as ASP, CSP, OHST, CHST, CHMM.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides two awards to ASSE members who wish to advance their education through ASSE Certification Preparation Workshops (ASP, CSP), ASSE Professional Development Seminars or Symposia or the ASSE Professional Development Conference.

Deadline Note

Applications should be submitted online to both the Carnegie Institution of Washington and to Princeton University.

Synopsis

The sponsors offer a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in astronomy. The Fellow is expected to work for two years in Princeton and two years at the main offices of the Observatories in Pasadena.

Deadline Note

Pre-proposals are due December 1, 2008. Full proposals, if invited, will be due by February 1, 2009.

Synopsis

The BBN program seeks projects that initiate partnerships with private landowners, demonstrate successful collaborative efforts, address watershed health issues that would lead to restoring, protecting, and enhancing habitats and are key to restoring, protecting, and enhancing native aquatic species and their migration corridors, promote stewardship on private lands, and that can demonstrate a 2:1 non-federal to federal match.

Synopsis

The sponsor has issued a request for proposals to develop a proposed guide for institutionalizing the continuous integration of safety in transportation planning and programming processes.

Deadline Note

Applications must be received at least one month before the advisory board meeting at which consideration is required. The Advisory Board meets in January, May and September. Applications for the next meeting will be accepted between October 27, 2008 and December 5, 2008.

Synopsis

The program assists with the travel expenses of foreign (defined as non-U.S. and non-Canadian) scientists who participate in major symposia in this country (or in Canada). The symposium topic must be "fundamental research in the petroleum field" to be eligible for support.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides support for projects to restore fish habitat, improve water quality, and enhance fish stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its Maryland tributaries.

Synopsis

The sponsor makes an award to recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in atomic, molecular, or optical physics and to encourage effective written and oral presentation of research results.

Deadline Note

The sponsor recommends that applicants submit a letter of inquiry prior to submitting a formal proposal. Letters of inquiry are accepted at any time during the year. Formal proposals are due by the above deadlines.

Synopsis

Support is provided to tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations, primarily in the Midwest for the development, testing and implementation of policy-based, prevention-oriented, scientifically sound solutions to the environmental challenges facing the region.

Synopsis

The Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship Program is intended to stimulate interdisciplinary research and curriculum development that involve social issues, engineering, the sciences, economics, management, business, law and public policy issues. Up to three awards of $25,000 each will be made in 2009.

Synopsis

The sponsor currently funds research focused on dystonia. Research grants support hypothesis-driven research at the genetic, molecular, cellular, systems or behavioral levels that may, directly or indirectly, lead to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of dystonia or to new therapies for dystonia.

Synopsis

The sponsor supports a fellowship to assist postdoctoral fellows to establish careers in dystonia research.

Synopsis

The sponsor provides an award to honor a leading cosmologist, astronomer, astrophysicist or scientific philosopher for theoretical, analytical, or conceptual discoveries leading to fundamental advances in the field. A gold medal and unrestricted $500,000 cash prize are presented annually.

Deadline Note

Letters of intent were due October 30, 2008. Applications are due on December 15, 2008.

Synopsis

Under this program, proposals are sought for studies that will take advantage of a Web-based relational database that organizes and integrates data from the Relationships of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA) study.